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El-Rufai Appoints UK Professor As Policy Adviser

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Kaduna State governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, has appointed Prof. Rajneesh Narula as a Information and Protection Adviser to the Planning and Funds Charge, the place he’ll assist make the State Progress Plan operational.

 

Prof Narula may additionally current steering on Sector Implementation Strategies, updating the State Industrial Plan and providing implementation strategies, along with stepping these insurance coverage insurance policies proper all the way down to the native governments by the use of the State Monetary Planning Board.

 

A press launch by the Specific Adviser to Governor El-Rufai on Media and Communication, Mr Muyiwa Adekeye on Friday, disclosed that Prof. Narula is the John H. Dunning Chair of Worldwide Enterprise Regulation on the Henley Enterprise Faculty, Faculty of Learning, UK, and Director of the Dunning Africa Centre in South Africa.

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The assertion said the model new Protection Adviser attended “Barewa Faculty, Zaria, sooner than graduating with a main diploma in Engineering from the Ahmadu Bello Faculty.”

In step with Adekeye, Narula “moreover has an MBA and a doctorate from Rutgers Faculty, USA. Sooner than academia, Professor Narula labored as an Engineer on the Nigerian Faculty of Aviation Know-how, Nigeria, and later as a Planning Analyst at IBM Asia/Pacific Headquarters in Hong Kong.”

The Specific Adviser said Narula’s “evaluation and consulting have centered on the perform of abroad funding and world present chains in enchancment, enchancment and industrial protection, know-how alliances and outsourcing. ”

 

Prof Narula has over 150 publications and has acted “as a information and advisor to the European Charge, UNIDO, UNCTAD, OECD, World Monetary establishment, along with various completely different worldwide organisations, nationwide governments, and consulting firms.”

“He has moreover been involved in advisory actions in Tanzania, Uganda, Thailand, China, Vietnam, Russia, India, Qatar, UAE, Senegal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, South Africa, together with nearly all the nations in Europe,” the assertion added.

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